Bunny Cupcakes

I got a new cupcake book for Christmas last year and I have been itching to try it out. So I thumbed through the book looking for a fun Easter recipe. And I found the perfect one, bunny cupcakes! In honor of Easter, I decided to make cupcakes for our local firefighters just to say thank you for all that they have done. 

So the process begins. This is the cupcake book that I used.

To purchase this book go to Barnes & Noble.

This project was super easy! Why? because you use a cake mix. I used Betty Crocker's yellow cake mix. I did a couple of things different though. I used 4 eggs instead of 3 and a cup of buttermilk rather than using water (I found this recipe in the back of the book).

This is the mix I used

First I made 24 cupcakes.

Next I let the cupcakes cool. I have made a lot of cupcakes and in turn I have learned a few tips. To cool the cupcakes faster I put them back into the cupcake pan and stick them in the freezer for about 5 minutes. 

While the cupcakes were cooling I gathered my ingredients for the toppings. 

My ingredients: Malt eggs, chocolate teddy grams, chocolate marshmallows, flat marshmallows, and chocolate and vanilla frostings. 

Next I put about a handfull of teddy grams in a plastic bag and crushed them up.

Before

After

The crushed up teddy grams will be the top of the bunny cupcakes

I then took the vanilla icing and tinted it green. This will be the top of the grass cupcakes.

 After all the cupcakes have been iced. 

Close up of the 'grass' cupcakes

(sorry it is kind of blurry)

Close up of the bunny cupcakes

Once the cupcakes were iced I cut the flat marshmallows into the shapes of bunny feet. 

I cut the chocolate marshmallows in half and used them as the bunnies tails.

I attached the tails and the feet with chocolate icing.

To make the bunnies more realistic I added foot pads on the marshmallow feet. 

I used chocolate icing to do this. 

To add the finishing touches to the grass I used the end of the metal spatula to make the icing stand up, making the icing look like grass, and then put the chocolate malt eggs on the top. 

This is the finished product.

The picture really doesn't do it justice. But they do look nice, well I think that they do.